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No mosquitoes seems high on your list. This occurs in areas with very arid climates. It also occurs in the Whitewater river valley in southern MN near Rochester. The bedrock is porus limestone so the rain goes underground and does not form breeding pools. There are some streams and rivers and springs in some places. Land prices are fairly high since there is good farmland in the area to drive up the prices. This is far enough south that there are rattelsnakes.

If you don't like the winters you might find a similar area eleswhere.

West Texas is good and cheap for various reasons. Ozark Mountains in northern Arkansas is good also.

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speakign to the mold and mildew, I gardened in the coast range of Oregon 80+" of rain a year, but none from July (almost) through October. I didn't feel I had a problem?

The main problem was cold damp soil through June. There are ways to get around it, raised beds, covering from rain(ha), rock, blocking wind etc. As well as just plant stuff later, it will catch up in the long sun.

There is a point in the indian summer where the mildew is inevitable, I was able to stave it off by covering the tomatos with plastic when it rained, and took it right off when it stopped. Air flow is crucial, site it where there'll be some wind-- you can always block it when it's too cold etc.

Ha, I guess that sounds like a lot of work maybe, but it didn't seem that way to me.

People that do year round gardening seem to make little open ended mini greenhouses--more to keep off the excess water than to keep it warm I think.

I never thought there was a problem with mosquitos--we had a pond and open rain barrels. Of course there was also tons of wildlife--birds and bats and things to eat them. In fact I thought "where are they???" it was worse in town actually.

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Might want to look up water use laws.

Wallace Stegner discusses how water effected laws in the development of the West. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian.

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Water in New Mexico is scarce. With that said, there are no restrictions on rainwater harvesting in NM, unlike CO.

To catch summer monsoons, you definately want 6-7000 feet elevation as a minimum.

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